Immortal Beloved

I was alone in a new place and wanted to go back,
Truly detesting and loathing this new where I came to rest,
But then you were there and I felt a weight lifted from my chest,
All the stress was lifted from my heart.

I wondered for a while in pensive pondering
What ways to tell you that your presence brightened my stay,
Never knowing, for I never could tell you, coward every day.
Still it was there burning in my heart.

I wished every day to tell you what was real.
My beloved why could I not have acted with more haste?
Every day I was there and did not act had become a waste.
I never was able to give you this heart.

I took for granted the times I saw you every day.
Then I went away and could not go back to where you dwell
The moments I think I should have acted torture me like hell,
Will I every show you my heart?

I even tried to forget and give up your cherished image.
I tried to replace you with others who cannot match your grace,
Or even your sweet whisper that is soft snow on fragile lace.
Your image will never leave this heart.

I beseech that my love be heard, this all will know:
That as long as breath dwells within me, as long as my heart beats
There in the depths of my being where not one bad thing can reach
Will your image be kept amidst my burning heart,
My Immortal Beloved.